| Description |
1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Contemporary ethnography |
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Contemporary ethnography.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: "We can't hang Xanana there!" On the Politics of Representing Community -- Chapter 1 East Timor: A History of the Present -- Chapter 2 Leaving the Crocodile: The East Timorese Community in Sydney -- Chapter 3 Nation, Transnation, Diaspora: Locating East Timorese Long Distance Nationalism -- Chapter 4 Embodying Exile: Embodied Memory and the Role of Trauma, Affect, Politics, and Religion in the Formation of Identities in Exile -- Chapter 5 Locating East Timoreseness in Australia: Layers of Hybridity, Anchored and Enmeshed -- Chapter 6 From Exile to Diaspora? On Identity, Belonging, and the (Im)Possibility of Return Home -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Independence Day: Looking to the Future -- Afterword: January 2005 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Drawing on innovative ethnographic research, Exile and Return Among the East Timorese explores questions of shifting identity and home, trauma and embodiment, belonging and return among the East Timorese abroad at this critical juncture in their lives |
| Analysis |
Return |
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Belonging |
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Future |
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Identity |
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Cultural hybridization |
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Australia |
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Religion |
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Trauma |
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Exile |
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Diaspora |
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Nation |
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Communities |
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Politics |
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History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Political refugees -- Timor-Leste
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Political refugees -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions
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Exiles -- Timor-Leste
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Exiles -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions
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Timorese -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
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Return migration -- Timor-Leste
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Exiles
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Political refugees
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Political refugees -- Social conditions
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Return migration
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Timorese
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New South Wales -- Sydney
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Timor-Leste
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005042361 |
| ISBN |
9780812203929 |
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0812203925 |
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1283212145 |
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9781283212144 |
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